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Rating: 2/5
Pages: 374
Started: 18 July 2022
Finished: 22 July 2022
Summary:
Mark, Todd, and Zola have just begun to realize what a mistake they’ve made: they’ve taken out 200k in debt each to pay for law school at a subpar school where they might not even pass the bar, let alone find a job in a bad economy. When their friend commits suicide, leaving them with a map of information showing just how much of a scam their school really is, the three students decide to drop out and begin a series of crimes and heists to make back the money lost.
Thoughts:
Perhaps my covid-brain-fog made this book harder to follow, but I struggled to differentiate the characters enough to care about them. Two of the three protagonists were misogynistic, racist, whiny white boys who couldn’t even make it through a subpar law school program. And, once they decided to take on a life of crime and heist, they couldn’t even do that competently enough to satisfy me. There was far too much legal jargon in the book without enough success, feel good moments, or actually interesting things to know. The writing was both racist and misogynistic as well—Zola, the Senegalese-American woman from a muslim family was only a functional character when she stepped away from Islam, but she was called a “good little muslim” by a character for donning a hijab to visit her family. The only other female character was a morally ambiguous lawyer who’s only personality trait was that she slept around; the book decidedly different not pass the Bechdel test.
I was super disappointed by this book. I read a YA Grisham book ages ago and really enjoyed the momentum and success of it, and was hoping this would be an adult heist version of that same heady feeling of success. Nope. I think I’ll stay away from Grisham books in the future.